This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... immortal life beneath the dying flesh, have watched the ebbing life-tide, have foreseen the close as it drew near, and met the final call as with girded loins, knowing in whom they have believed, and assured that death cannot separate them from the love of God as revealed in the risen Saviour. Such souls are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... immortal life beneath the dying flesh, have watched the ebbing life-tide, have foreseen the close as it drew near, and met the final call as with girded loins, knowing in whom they have believed, and assured that death cannot separate them from the love of God as revealed in the risen Saviour. Such souls are witnesses for the faith they love. They strengthen the timid and the doubting. They diffuse a profound and vivid sense of the reality of the higher life, of the omnipotence of the Gospel, of the certainty of its promises, of the Almighty arm beneath the sufferer, of the sufficiency of God's grace for the soul's severest stress and deepest need. Others there are, who first learn the blessedness of religious trust when the leaf begins to fade. There are those who have led, it may be, a creditable worldly life; but they have been so busy and care-cumbered, or have been so imbedded in ease and affluence, that they have hardly lifted a thought Godward or heavenward. But the early frost has touched the green branch, and they know for a certainty that it will never be green again. Shall its leaves merely wither and fall, or shall they clothe themselves in colors borrowed from the bow of heaven, which shall not fade, but shall blush and glow into immortality? There are those in whom the check on the earthly life awakens every precious memory of early faith, recalls a devout mother's teachings, revives impressions that had seemed evanescent, quickens the dormant sense of a spiritual being, bows the soul in sincere penitence for the years in which God has had so small a part, and leads it humbled, to him whose words are, "Him who cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out." And then the fading leaf grows beautiful. The stages of decline are rungs of...
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